Microsoft sued over cloud
 

CISPE complains that Vole is being anti-competative again

Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) has moaned to the EC's Directorate-General for Competition about Microsoft's cloudy antics.

For those who came in late, Vole was forced to make some consessions after it was caught charging more for acquiring and running Microsoft software in clouds other than Azure, and technical adjustments required to run some programs on rival clouds.

Microsoft rolled out the changes in October. This included something it called Flexible Virtualization, allowing customers with Software Assurance (SA) or subscription licenses to use licensed software to build or install systems and run them on any cloud providers' infrastructure. The Windows giant added an option to SA that allows Windows Server to be licensed on virtual cores without tying users to the physical cores present on a server.

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